E. Christopher Clark - Author and All-Around Geek
About ECC
E. Christopher Clark is an author and all-around geek who is passionate about storytelling in all its forms.
He began publishing in 1991, at the ripe old age of 14, with the publication of the five issue comic book series Blood Red. His books now include the short story collection Those Little Bastads, its forthcoming follow-up All He Left Behind, and the forthcoming novel Down the Cape.
The founder of Geek Force Five, New Hampshire Magazine’s Best Pop Culture Blog for 2009, Clark has been writing for the Web since 1997. His most infamous work pre-GF5 was the irreverent That Little Bastad, a sort of online scrapbook for his thoughts on life and pop culture (which ran between 1999 and 2008), but he has also written memorably about family, fatherhood, and the craft of writing.
Clark was born and raised in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, earned his bachelor’s degree in Writing and Theatre from the late great Bradford College, and became a Master of Fine Arts (whatever that means) in the Creative Writing program at Lesley University. At Bradford, he studied under the writer David Crouse, served as editor of the college literary magazine, The Bradford ReView, and co-hosted the weekly music program Complete and Utter Randomness on the campus radio station (W.H.A.T., 87.9 FM). Beyond that, his plays, A Lick and a Promise and The People vs. Jesus Christ were produced in Bradford’s black box theater, and he acted in productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Audley’s Secret. At Lesley, he studied under the writers Michael Lowenthal, Christina Shea, Tony Eprile, and Rachel Kadish, among others, and produced what would become the first draft of Down the Cape.
An adjunct professor, he lives in New Hampshire, on the shores of the Mighty Merrimack River, with his wife and daughters.